Flippancy aside, I'm looking at it from the point of nutrition - breakfast makes a difference, yes, but hot vs. cold? That's news to me.
The schools are providing kids with the calories they *need* to make it through the day. They are not behaving in a wholly capitalist fashion at the expense of the children by denying them altogether, and I've yet to see anything other than public opinion to support the reading that administrators are doing this to use kids as tools to "shame" their parents. I know some politicians do think that way, such as that ass who wanted to deny AIDs testing to expectant mothers on the theory that watching their children suffer would better make them understand the consequences of "promiscuity." But I don't think that these administrators are using anything resembling that rationale: given the lamentable state of funding for education in the states, it strikes me as being a budget issue rather than anything more sinister.
The post was spurred primarily by irritation with the histrionic nature of the comments on the linked post: while this is just another sign that our priorities as a nation are hideously out of whack, focusing on this to the degree that we are strikes me as akin to rearranging the deck chairs.
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The schools are providing kids with the calories they *need* to make it through the day. They are not behaving in a wholly capitalist fashion at the expense of the children by denying them altogether, and I've yet to see anything other than public opinion to support the reading that administrators are doing this to use kids as tools to "shame" their parents. I know some politicians do think that way, such as that ass who wanted to deny AIDs testing to expectant mothers on the theory that watching their children suffer would better make them understand the consequences of "promiscuity." But I don't think that these administrators are using anything resembling that rationale: given the lamentable state of funding for education in the states, it strikes me as being a budget issue rather than anything more sinister.
The post was spurred primarily by irritation with the histrionic nature of the comments on the linked post: while this is just another sign that our priorities as a nation are hideously out of whack, focusing on this to the degree that we are strikes me as akin to rearranging the deck chairs.